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June 8, 2026 12 mins
Sarasota - Bradenton is Number 9 on the Most Popular Places People Are Moving Into. PODS, the moving and storage compnay does the list annually. Maverick is a little surprised, since he hears people compain about how much things cost here. Lulu though isn't surprised at all. Several people wanted to share therir thoughts. LISTEN HERE

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a little surprising to me because I hear
people complain about costs a lot in our area. Yeah,
Sarasota in the top ten cities people are moving to,
according to pods Portable on Demand Storage. They tracked this
every year. They've been doing it for several years. This
is where people are moving to and where they're moving from.
Sarasota has been on the list in the past where

(00:22):
people are moving to, and we were off the list
last year, but now we're back in. So they do
a top twenty of move to and move out of
we're number nine this year where people are moving too.
There are four Florida cities in the top sixteen. Okaala
is at number two, we're number nine, Jacksonville's number ten,
Orlando at sixteen.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's your Florida people. Okay, you're not surprised we're on
this top ten list. Well where people are moving too?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, not at all.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
But don't you hear what I hear.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
That it's everything's expensive, like it's too expensive to live.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Well, I'm just wondering it's probably. I think it's expensive
in most places. We have no income tax. We live
in Paradise. It's a desirable place to live.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
It just is well, the income tax is interesting you
bring that up, because I'm looking.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
At this list.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
There are four Florida cities in the top sixteen. There
are four Tennessee cities in the top eighteen. So as
I'm scanning this list, this is where people are moving to.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Top places.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Knoxville is number eight, Nashville number eleven, Chattanooga thirteen, Johnson City,
Tennessee eighteen. Tennessee has no state income tax. Texas doesn't
have a state income tax, and they got two on
the list here, Dallas and San Antonio. So is that
a major factor as to why we're on the list?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
You think?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I do think it contributes for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
And I know that if you even come here on vacation,
you're like, I have to get back. I want to
live here. It's just desirable in so many ways.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I'd love to get some takes on this, because I
do hear it's too expensive now, Lulu says it's expensive
a lot of places. Yes, this says people are moving here.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
What do you think.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Are you surprised we're on the top ten list of
all the cities in the entire country. Sarah Soota Bradenan's
in the top ten where people are moving too. I
love to know what you think about this. Loul's not surprised.
I'm a little surprised, just based on what I hear
from people. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina top
of the list, Okaala number two, Dallas three, Sarasota nine,

(02:29):
Jacksonville's ten.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
That puts three of the top ten places. And people
are moving to in Florida.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Is this the best?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
But I constantly hear people saying that it's too expensive here.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
You're never gonna hear us not. It's expensive everywhere.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Hello, what's going on?

Speaker 5 (02:44):
Ever?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Tell me, man, what's going on with you?

Speaker 6 (02:46):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Man?

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Well, I've lived in Florida my entire lives. I've been
here twenty eight years, and we're pulled.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I'm originally from Mica City.

Speaker 7 (02:55):
Florida, and everywhere in Parish and the outskirts of Brydon,
cham In VENs everywhere.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
We used to hunt and fish and ride four wheelers
and all that.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's all housing down.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
I was driving with my mom on Friday and we
turned this corner in Venice and she's like, when did
they put that up? And it's like a whole apartment
complex like huge.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
And the early two thousands when jack Aranda and Venice
Avenue was a four way light, none of that was
there when they were building jack Aranda. Back in the day,
my dad and I used to fish a lot of
those lakes. The bath fishing back then was unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Oh yeah, No.

Speaker 7 (03:31):
And I grew up on the Maaca River, so east
of seventy five when you would.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Take jack Aranda to Border Road and it was just
cawpast as far as you could see.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well, it's interesting those houses on Border Road.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I'm waiting because where they built that, all those houses
on Border be on the lookout for foundation cracks because
that land was underwater every time. Yes, And they built
all those housing developments off of Border and they did
not bring enough fil dirt in, I don't think. And
a lot of those are going to wound up settling
when after several years of rain, Lulu, and they're gonna

(04:04):
I just get to see a lot of foundation cracks.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Oh yeah, I mean, wetland is always gonna be wetland,
no matter how dig you deep.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
We're never going back to what it was though.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
You're right, Lulu, We're never going back. That's it.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
No, no, it, We're too far gone for you.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Two are positive? Yeah, all right, what do you think?
So he's kind of like Lulu, he knows why everybody's coming. Yeah,
I'm just surprised. I'm constantly hearing the complaints though about
what things cost.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's always going to be the case, no matter where
you are.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
I think.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
So, Okay, it's interesting we are on the pods list
of the top ten places people are moving to.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
So I'm curious what is your thought on this. You
surprised by that or not?

Speaker 3 (04:49):
That cost is up everywhere anywhere you go. I think, hello, I.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Want to comment on that. Everybody coming to Florida.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, Sarasota particular.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yes, Sarasota is absolutely right. I'm one of those guys.
I moved from New York to Bradenton in twenty twenty one.
The developers are over developing this land and it's happening
in Bradonton on seventy.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Fifth Street, you know, seventy fifth Street in Manatee County.
There reminds me of Venice and Sarasota. So it reminds
me of like the border Road area in Venice or
River Road, and then in Sarasota, it reminds me of
the Palmer Ranch area where it was right basically open space.
Animals could roam that kind of stuff. And now it's

(05:35):
not just a little development, massive development, of.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Course, And what they're doing is the developers are building
all these new tathouses and new houses along seventy fifth,
but there's only one road roundabouts to get.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
In and out. Yeah, and seventy fifth, by the way,
is another one of those like parts of the rain
that they're extending where it's only two lanes.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
What were they thinking?

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Absolutely, you're absolutely right. For now, on the weekends, getting
to Anna Marie Island the beaches over there, it takes
like forty five minutes, But when those new houses and
developments come up, it's gonna take like an hour and
a half two hours to get over to the island.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Well, during season it does now, but yeah, in the
off season, it's gonna take that long because of what
you're saying.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Absolutely, one hundred percent.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
Yes, it's it's the greediness and it's the over development
of around Manife County. I'm sure happening all over on
the west coast of Florida.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Now, what brought you here from New York.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well, actually, my buddy is a retired detective from New
York City and he moved down here in twenty eighteen,
and he invited me down in twenty nineteen for ten
days to check it out, and I I absolutely fell in.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Love with it.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
So I packed up all my stuff and twenty twenty one, Yeah,
and I moved down here.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, and you got a raise too by moving here.
No state income tax exactly.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
I was gonna see that Texas, so I chorch Flora.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, well, welcome, my friend. Welcome, and don't tell anybody
else though, please.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
You and you have a great day you too, Thank you,
Bye bye bye.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
So he's not surprised. Yep, you're not surprised.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Sarah Sai bradentson number nine on places where people are
moving to of anywhere in the country.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Are you surprised by that at all?

Speaker 6 (07:23):
Or not?

Speaker 1 (07:24):
You got a thought on the amount of people moving here,
you do, ma'am? Is that right?

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (07:29):
I was calling to make a comment on the development
of Sarasota.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, yeah, I mean we are one of the top
ten places of the country people are moving too.

Speaker 7 (07:40):
Yes, I found that out and I live on Fruitfille
Roads and Lakewood Ranch is invading out where I live at,
which was formally mostly armed and cal.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Hold on a second, let me just say this.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
So the people that live near seventy fifth Street, they
used to have farmland, but they were near the bay.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
They say that town is invading them.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
My mom, who lives in Venice and the farmland area,
is like they're invading the farmland. And now you're on
Fruitville and you're like Lakewood Ranch is invading.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
So it's just so interesting how all.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
These subdivisions are creeping into all of what used to
be more rural areas.

Speaker 7 (08:25):
Yes, yes, Old Florida is dying quick. Yes, and it's sad.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
There's land and money to be made. That's what's going
to happen.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
I mean, I guess you know, nothing says quaint Forever.

Speaker 7 (08:39):
Well, I want to know who's pay them for the roadwork.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
They're supposed to be a part of it. That is
a part of the project.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
But then the county is responsible or the city, depending
on where it is. Most time we're talking county on
the areas I just mentioned, and you were talking about
that's the county And the problem is yeah, but you
gotta understand who you're voting for on CA Hony commissions
in particular. Absolutely, so you've got to be aware of
who you're voting for. And you can't keep approving developments

(09:09):
or have people that are beholden to developers approving stuff
but they don't allocate the resources for the roads.

Speaker 7 (09:17):
Absolutely, we've got to be more responsible with the development.
But it's insane. I just wanted you to know. Fruitfield
Road is in the process of being completely annihilated and
it has me very sad.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
I drove down Fo're going to go a buddy's house
the other night, and have you been down Fruitville east
of the interstate, Lulu, not for that.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
It's a disaster.

Speaker 7 (09:40):
Oh really Yeah, that's where I live at. Okay, it
was a heaven. I mean it was heaven. And the
next same we know we're part of Lakewood Ranch. Yeah,
and I don't I don't understand how it happened. Well money, money, yeah, money,
And it's sad. Yeah, you know, And that's just the

(10:00):
way it is.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
And Manatee County's got issues with I would say a
significant amount of their county commissioners now approving development. Honestly,
and I've told this to some people that are thinking
about running. The only thing that matters if you're running
for kind of commission is what is your stance on development.
If you can't answer that question in less than two sentences,
you're out.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Look.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
I'm not anti development and the jobs it brings, but
you got to have where are you doing it?

Speaker 2 (10:26):
What's the infrastructure set up? And how are we doing this?

Speaker 1 (10:29):
And how many other projects are we doing simultaneously because
we got to slow down.

Speaker 7 (10:35):
Yes, absolutely, thank you, have a great day, you too,
Bye bye.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
You got a thought, so now, ma'am you're not surprised,
tell me what your thought is.

Speaker 6 (10:44):
Good morning, I'm calling about Shirisota being the number one
destination we're full stay home.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Well, I don't know if they're going to listen to that.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
I did it on Facebook the other day too, and
people were like, that's not nice, and I'm like, Barlas troops.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
What's fascinating to me is we had been under the
radar forever and you cannot argue with the data.

Speaker 6 (11:07):
I managed a condo on long boot K We've had
thirty five sales in the last two and a half months.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Wow, how many units do you have one hundred and
fifty one? This is what everybody's talking about. I don't
know that it's never gonna not be nuts again.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
Yeah, I think it's got to end sometime.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Probably.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
I was out yesterday where was I and Oh? I
was walking and I heard overhard you people talking. They
were walking behind me, and they're like, man, this is
working home. He's like, yeah, he goes, I moved here
because of this. He goes, well, what do you do?
And he goes taking my laptop to the beach to
finish my day.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
Yeah, there's a lot of people to do that too well.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
And I just wonder.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
I don't know that it ends like I'm not saying
it keeps going up, but it maybe just levels off
where it is and it doesn't dip.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
I mean that's a possibility, But I have the feelings
some other game changes are headed our way.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Blake, I don't even want to think about it. I
don't know who knows now.

Speaker 6 (11:56):
I moved from Miami twenty two years ago, and I
ninety five was probably under construction for the last ten
of the twenty that's before I lived there.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Well, I mean, seventy five isn't going to look like
ninety five, but it's going to be a mini version
of it here in a few years.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
Yeah, it's never gonna stop.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
No, I mean they're going to keep coming. That's the thing.
People don't like the snow. I don't like the.

Speaker 6 (12:19):
Snow either, But stay home.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Hey, thank you for calling and listen. You have a
great day.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
Thanks, good guys too.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Bye bye.
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